GreenBiz
MARCH 11, 2021
The rise of social metrics in ESG reporting. Aman Singh. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 12:00. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. For years, companies have focused voluntary social reporting on metrics that are, let’s say, comfortable: government-mandated data, such as occupational health and safety or certain hiring metrics, that has been measured and managed for years.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 11, 2021
Consumers have become accustomed to the idea of planned obsolescence — that the things we buy will deliberately fail sooner rather than later, requiring us to buy more. But the U.K. has announced that it will implement EU rules for increasing the lifespan of certain consumer goods.
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GreenBiz
MARCH 11, 2021
Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience. Chris Castro. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 01:00. Cities are home to more than 50 percent of the global population and as a result are presented with ever-growing challenges, including finding a balance between social equity, economic vitality and environmental sustainability. Cities also have extraordinary potential to enable change and the ability to find harmony between people, prosperity and the planet that creates a better future for all.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 11, 2021
Global design practice Perkins and Will has raised the bar for sustainable campus design with the award-winning Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 11, 2021
Liz Fletcher. The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) has appointed Liz Fletcher as its new director of business engagement and operations, to support the growth of Scotland’s developing bioeconomy and delivery of the National Plan for Industrial Biotechnology. Liz joins IBioIC from the University of Edinburgh, where she managed the UK Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology alongside her role as senior research development manager.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 11, 2021
Under the guise of Gambit Energy Storage LLC, a secretive subsidiary of Tesla, a new, 100-megawatt battery is coming to Angleton, Texas.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 11, 2021
Like humans, good plant companions bring out the best in each other.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 11, 2021
Shell will trial a battery-backed ultra-fast charging system at a Dutch filling station, with tentative plans to adopt the format more widely to ease the grid pressures likely to come with mass-market electric vehicle adoption. By boosting the output of the chargers from the battery, the impact on the grid is dramatically reduced. That means avoiding expensive grid infrastructure upgrades.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 11, 2021
Image credit: SOCOTEC. Trade effluent and wastewater discharge in railway depots can be a costly necessity which, if not managed and monitored correctly, can have a detrimental impact on the environment, as well as carrying severe legal and financial consequences. This primer on the topic, from testing, inspection and compliance services firm SOCOTEC, is a reproduction of an article recently published on one of its blogs.
Green Business Bureau
MARCH 11, 2021
Sustainable Business Success: Avoid the Common Mistakes. Creating a sustainable and socially responsible business starts at the top, with the CEO and leadership team. The team is responsible for devising policies, tactics and strategies to meet company goals which until recently have been more focused on growth and profit than doing good. But to be a great company today, profit alone is no longer enough.
Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium
With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 11, 2021
City of York Council says it is taking action to make York more pollinator friendly. There are over 4,000 species of insects in the UK that carry out pollination of native wild plants and food crops, but they are under threat and in decline due to habitat loss and excessive pesticide use. The council wants to introduce a new Pollinator Strategy so that it can ensure local residents, businesses and landowners are provided with information to help protect and increase pollinators.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 11, 2021
Forget your weekend’s tours to your IKEA store. Helsingborg, a coastal city located in the South of Sweden, is going to become the dream destination for lovers of iconic Billy and Poäng.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 11, 2021
According to recent analysis by BloombergNEF, in last year’s record-setting year, the wind market commissioned nearly 100 gigawatts (GW) of new build in 2020. Undeterred by COVID-19, installations grew 59% year-on-year. Developers commissioned 96.3 GW of wind turbines globally in 2020, compared with 60.7 GW the previous year, said BNEF. Most of these were on land (94%), as the addition of new turbines at sea fell to 6.1 gigawatts – a 19% drop compared to 2019.
altenergymag
MARCH 11, 2021
Southern Communities for a Green New Deal is a new policy platform that builds on the national Green New Deal to center and serve the region's low-income communities and communities of color.
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 11, 2021
Many buildings are designed to fit into the natural world around them. Orchard House was built to pay homage to it.
Green Business Bureau
MARCH 11, 2021
Sustainable Business Success: Avoid the Common Mistakes. Creating a sustainable and socially responsible business starts at the top, with the CEO and leadership team. The team is responsible for devising policies, tactics and strategies to meet company goals which until recently have been more focused on growth and profit than doing good. But to be a great company today, profit alone is no longer enough.
Charged
MARCH 11, 2021
Commercial vehicle manufacturer Volta Trucks has selected Proterra as the battery supplier for its upcoming Volta Zero, an electric 16-ton vehicle designed specifically for inner-city freight distribution. The collaboration represents US-based Proterra’s entry into the European truck market. Volta launched a prototype Volta Zero in September 2020. It plans to start customer trials later in 2021, and to begin series production about 12 months later.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 11, 2021
ImpactAlpha, March 11 — Goldman Sachs is looking to invest in at least one million Black women by 2030 via a $10 billion. The post Goldman Sachs commits to investing $10 billion in Black women appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
altenergymag
MARCH 11, 2021
For over 25 years now, Swale Oceanographic has been providing top-quality ocean monitoring instruments and equipment throughout the UK and Europe.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 11, 2021
ImpactAlpha, March 11 – Three’s a herd – of African unicorns. The close of digital payments company Flutterwave’s Series C round makes it at. The post Nigeria’s Flutterwave passes $1 billion valuation with $170 million round appeared first on Impact Alpha.
altenergymag
MARCH 11, 2021
Metal Construction Industry Experts Shape New &Enriched Programming
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 11, 2021
Atlantic U.S. utility National Grid is partnering to demonstrate a multi-use renewable hydrogen-based energy storage and delivery system in New York. The venture with Standard Hydrogen Corp. will focus around developing what National Grid called the first such hydrogen storage and delivery system in New York’s Capital Region. The project is expected to be completed late next year.
altenergymag
MARCH 11, 2021
Largest-Ever Private Label Partnership with International Manufacturer of Generator Power Systems Reinforces Electriq Power’s Industry-Leading Solutions
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 11, 2021
LG Energy Solution, the US unit of LG Chem today announced plans to invest $4.5 billion to expand its US electric vehicle battery manufacturing footprint with an additional 70 GWh of capacity from 2025 onward.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 11, 2021
Read time: 5 mins A new study by the University of California, Los Angeles reveals that more than half a million U.S. residents live within close proximity of oil and gas flaring events, exposing them to potentially significant health risks. Those impacts are disproportionately felt by communities of color in North Dakota, Texas, and New Mexico.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 11, 2021
The Long Island Solar Roadmap (the Roadmap) , a new report and interactive map from The Nature Conservancy and Defenders of Wildlife, demonstrates how Long Island could produce more solar electricity than the region uses all year by developing solar capacity on “low-impact” sites such as parking lots, capped landfills, and commercial building rooftops.
The City Fix
MARCH 11, 2021
Urban freight vehicles constitute less than 10% of vehicles on the road in most cities, but they account for a disproportionate amount of transport-related CO2 emissions and pollutants. According to the Beijing Transport Institute, freight in Beijing accounts for around. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 11, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 11 – The legislation’s narrative of bottom-up prosperity for the post-Covid recovery resonates with a core thesis of impact finance: Putting more. The post American Rescue Plan brings policy support – and $1.9 trillion – to the new bottom-up economics appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
MARCH 11, 2021
UN Statistical Commission formally adopts System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting. The long-running campaign to encourage governments to look beyond GDP and consider economic metrics that better account for environmental costs and benefits took a major step forward yesterday, as the UN formally adopted a new approach for measuring economic progress.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 11, 2021
ImpactAlpha, March 11 — The Souls Grown Deep Foundation is providing a $600,000 convertible note to Paskho, a Black-owned eco-friendly apparel company. Souls. The post Souls Grown Deep Foundation backs Paskho to create quality jobs for Gee’s Bend quilters in Alabama appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
MARCH 11, 2021
Analysis from local group highlights there is potential for 4,500 green jobs in West Cumbria, the region where controversial coal mine is planned. The argument in favour of building a brand-new coal mine in Cumbria has been delivered a fresh blow this morning, in the wake of research that highlights the potential for green jobs in the area is nearly 10 times larger than the number of jobs promised by the developers of the mine.
Mr. Sustainability
MARCH 11, 2021
A technical, environmental and economic assessment by J.M. Rozendaal at Van Oord Summary - This thesis by J.M. Rozendaal at van Oord focuses on the technical, environmental and economic impact of a methanol hybrid power plant design for new-build offshore working vessels. Its conclusion is that a methanol solution has a CO2 reduction potential up to 99% and a CO2 price of 78 euro per ton CO2 reduction.
Business Green
MARCH 11, 2021
Banking giant commits to ending support for coal by 2040 after reaching compromise with shareholders. HSBC's board has today agreed to phase out all coal financing within 20 years, in a major victory for shareholders who have been piling pressure on the bank to set out how and when it will reduce its significant exposure to fossil fuel assets. The move comes after a $2.4tr coalition of major investors - including asset management giant Amundi and publicly-traded hedge fund Man Group - filed a cl
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